Hospital Facility Fees

Consumers have complained for years about facility fees which hospitals charge for outpatient services at facilities they own to cover operational expenses. In 2015 and 2016, hospitals billed consumers for over $1 billion in facility fees.

Four nurses, all of them affiliated with a Derby pain clinic, were responsible for nearly all of the state’s 2014 Medicare spending on the powerful opioid painkiller Subsys, which is at the center of a kickback probe.